Jakarta (VNA) – General Director of
Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyen Duc Loi had a meeting with President Director
of Indonesia’s news agency ANTARA Meidyatama Suryodiningrat in Jakarta on March
20 to discuss measures to increase bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

The two sides reiterated their commitments to
further traditional cooperative ties in exchanging information and supporting respective
reporters.

They agreed to boost cooperation activities
within the framework of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA)
and promote the initiative of establishing an organisation to forge
collaboration among Southeast Asian news agencies and spread more information
about the ASEAN Community.

General Director Nguyen Duc Loi said the organisation
will help embrace connectivity as well as share experience and improve the
operational efficiency of all news agencies in ASEAN, especially in providing
prompt and accurate information about intra-and-extra bloc activities for the
common development in Southeast Asia.

This idea has received warm support from other regional
news agencies such as Cambodia’s AKP, Malaysia’s BERNAMA, Laos’ KPL, and
Thailand’s TNA, he noted.

President Director Meidyatama Suryodiningrat
said he will contact with the ASEAN Secretariat at the end of March or in early
April to present the idea and necessary steps to set up the organisation in
2017 – the 50th founding anniversary of ASEAN.-VNA